I wrote a short story for english class, and decided I liked it, actually, and had some interesting sci-fi things that might make an okay movie. :p
....The long streets with their clutter seemed to stretch before this man as he walked down the dark twists and turns. Everywhere he looked, he could see garbage, rubble, and graffiti on the warped metal walls. The man could see many posters messily tacked up on the large ramp wall to his right, and more posters overrun with graffiti on the building walls to his right. One large one said ‘Defend Earth! It needs your help more than ever now!’, and there was another tacked right over it, depicting a marine getting brutally murdered by a creature, saying ‘Do you want this?! Don’t make wars, make peace!’
....The man smiled at this irony, as every capable human was drafted in the massive earth-shattering war of 2200… and every human was destroyed, almost. Save for a few homeless ones with no record of ever existing, human beings were annihilated, and the invaders used one of their weapons to blow a large chunk off the earth, sending it out of orbit and sending it closer to the sun. It still orbits extremely close to the massive light in the sky, yet it always seems to be getting farther away.
....The period it was very close to being melted in the sun, however, seared the surface of the planet and burned many buildings into husks. Only the dirty subterranean lower levels were mostly untouched.
....Humanity regrouped and reproduced, and rebuilt after a while of hiding from the aliens as they crept over the earth, searching for survivors. They left after not finding anyone, as they were too large to fit in the lower levels, and the humans that were underground came out and looked around, dazedly.
....The entire war took place in one year.
....The man stopped walking and sat down on a nearby ruined sofa set out on the side, apparently for incineration. He thought back.
....The war began when humans were at the height of their technology. The Earth was teeming with metropolises, with futuristic skyscrapers and massive buildings, and humans were on the verge of creating starships large enough to carry thousands of people at a time to other solar systems. There were ways of traveling to other planets, but there were no ways yet to actually maintain a civilization on the other planets. There were always problems.
....Then humans thought they could reach for something different. They thought of bending space itself and attempting to find a way to ‘slingshot’ ships from literally one end of the galaxy to the other to find new hospitable worlds.
....It worked for a while, but humans tried to reach too far and have too much and the slingshot was overused, and a massive black hole opened at the far end of it. And from this black hole came many horrendous creatures, awful beings straight from a nightmare. They were insect like in shape, but their movements were that of a dog. Their two front legs and two back legs were used to move, and they used their two middle legs to manipulate objects. They had amazing technological capabilities, and had jellyfish-like starships that had tentacles that reached down and wreaked havoc with the face of the earth.
....These aliens used the slingshot to come back to Earth and took humanity by surprise, sending down their ‘jellyfish-ships’ that used their tentacles and ripped up the cities. Smoke boiled up from ruined cities, clogging the sky and making the atmosphere black and dismal with constant thunderstorms.
....Humans sent up small one-man ships to try to fend off the aliens, who were dubbed ‘Hellions’ because they seemed to come from hell itself. We struck with nuclear missiles as well, and it worked. Or so we thought. The aliens drew back, and we believed we were victorious.
....Then a massive beam came down and ripped a sizeable piece out of the planet Earth, and it was suddenly knocked out of orbit towards the sun. Rock showers from the chunk that came off beat the surface and killed everyone on the surface, while the aliens came back and probed the surface for humans with their tentacle-ships. Any they did find were taken on board the ships, and no one knows what happened to those poor souls.
....After the homeless ones hid from them while the rock showers took place, the sun came too close and began to burn the face of the planet. The remaining buildings were burned to unrecognizable objects, and it was unbearably hot, even in the lower levels. Then the earth seemed to come out of its close orbit around the sun, and got farther away somehow, and things cooled down.
....The survivors came out of hiding and looked around to find a burned, battered, ruined Earth around them. They found one another and tried to rebuild humanity, and it is working to this day, two-hundred years later.
....The man got up from the sofa and kept walking, and looked up. There was a massive building above, which he could barely see through the top of the lower levels. The object looked like a mix between a crane and a suspension bridge. It had a massive neck that made it reach miles high, and a perpendicular part that had wires around it, and held up with an extension bridge-style wiring. A slight blue glow came from the end of this extension. It was a part of the huge shield built around the hole where the chunk was blown off the earth, and it protects that area from rock showers, held up by the many supporters built around the hole, just like the one he is looking at now.
....The man smiled. Things were going up, and humanity was almost back the way it was two-hundred and one years ago, before the war.
Well? I know it's rather dark, but hey. Whatever.
[EDIT: I added the .... in place of an indent to make it easier to read, because tab doesn't do anything on these forums.]
....The long streets with their clutter seemed to stretch before this man as he walked down the dark twists and turns. Everywhere he looked, he could see garbage, rubble, and graffiti on the warped metal walls. The man could see many posters messily tacked up on the large ramp wall to his right, and more posters overrun with graffiti on the building walls to his right. One large one said ‘Defend Earth! It needs your help more than ever now!’, and there was another tacked right over it, depicting a marine getting brutally murdered by a creature, saying ‘Do you want this?! Don’t make wars, make peace!’
....The man smiled at this irony, as every capable human was drafted in the massive earth-shattering war of 2200… and every human was destroyed, almost. Save for a few homeless ones with no record of ever existing, human beings were annihilated, and the invaders used one of their weapons to blow a large chunk off the earth, sending it out of orbit and sending it closer to the sun. It still orbits extremely close to the massive light in the sky, yet it always seems to be getting farther away.
....The period it was very close to being melted in the sun, however, seared the surface of the planet and burned many buildings into husks. Only the dirty subterranean lower levels were mostly untouched.
....Humanity regrouped and reproduced, and rebuilt after a while of hiding from the aliens as they crept over the earth, searching for survivors. They left after not finding anyone, as they were too large to fit in the lower levels, and the humans that were underground came out and looked around, dazedly.
....The entire war took place in one year.
....The man stopped walking and sat down on a nearby ruined sofa set out on the side, apparently for incineration. He thought back.
....The war began when humans were at the height of their technology. The Earth was teeming with metropolises, with futuristic skyscrapers and massive buildings, and humans were on the verge of creating starships large enough to carry thousands of people at a time to other solar systems. There were ways of traveling to other planets, but there were no ways yet to actually maintain a civilization on the other planets. There were always problems.
....Then humans thought they could reach for something different. They thought of bending space itself and attempting to find a way to ‘slingshot’ ships from literally one end of the galaxy to the other to find new hospitable worlds.
....It worked for a while, but humans tried to reach too far and have too much and the slingshot was overused, and a massive black hole opened at the far end of it. And from this black hole came many horrendous creatures, awful beings straight from a nightmare. They were insect like in shape, but their movements were that of a dog. Their two front legs and two back legs were used to move, and they used their two middle legs to manipulate objects. They had amazing technological capabilities, and had jellyfish-like starships that had tentacles that reached down and wreaked havoc with the face of the earth.
....These aliens used the slingshot to come back to Earth and took humanity by surprise, sending down their ‘jellyfish-ships’ that used their tentacles and ripped up the cities. Smoke boiled up from ruined cities, clogging the sky and making the atmosphere black and dismal with constant thunderstorms.
....Humans sent up small one-man ships to try to fend off the aliens, who were dubbed ‘Hellions’ because they seemed to come from hell itself. We struck with nuclear missiles as well, and it worked. Or so we thought. The aliens drew back, and we believed we were victorious.
....Then a massive beam came down and ripped a sizeable piece out of the planet Earth, and it was suddenly knocked out of orbit towards the sun. Rock showers from the chunk that came off beat the surface and killed everyone on the surface, while the aliens came back and probed the surface for humans with their tentacle-ships. Any they did find were taken on board the ships, and no one knows what happened to those poor souls.
....After the homeless ones hid from them while the rock showers took place, the sun came too close and began to burn the face of the planet. The remaining buildings were burned to unrecognizable objects, and it was unbearably hot, even in the lower levels. Then the earth seemed to come out of its close orbit around the sun, and got farther away somehow, and things cooled down.
....The survivors came out of hiding and looked around to find a burned, battered, ruined Earth around them. They found one another and tried to rebuild humanity, and it is working to this day, two-hundred years later.
....The man got up from the sofa and kept walking, and looked up. There was a massive building above, which he could barely see through the top of the lower levels. The object looked like a mix between a crane and a suspension bridge. It had a massive neck that made it reach miles high, and a perpendicular part that had wires around it, and held up with an extension bridge-style wiring. A slight blue glow came from the end of this extension. It was a part of the huge shield built around the hole where the chunk was blown off the earth, and it protects that area from rock showers, held up by the many supporters built around the hole, just like the one he is looking at now.
....The man smiled. Things were going up, and humanity was almost back the way it was two-hundred and one years ago, before the war.
Well? I know it's rather dark, but hey. Whatever.
[EDIT: I added the .... in place of an indent to make it easier to read, because tab doesn't do anything on these forums.]
DO NOT WANT.
You can thank me later 